The Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association comprises of universities throughout Australia and New Zealand, established in 1996. This site is aimed at being the central source of information on the various universities that offer courses in Interior Design and Interior Architecture, access to and publication of the IDEA Journal, a source of upcoming conferences and events, and a link to other related organisations and publications.

The word ‘situation’ brings attention to the designing of interiors as a practice engaged in spatial and temporal production; a practice that works in the midst of social, cultural, historical and political forces; a practice open to contingency, chance and change; a practice engaged with singularity and specificity.

SITUATION symposium and exhibition proceedings Table of Contents

Key Situator Presentations

Everyday Life InteriorsOmar Sosa Art Director, Apartamento magazine (SPAIN)A provisional context for discussion: thinking-making material relations, fashioning situations, and exhibiting practices in motion.Bianca Hester Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (AUS)Rubrics and Recipes: situations in timeEdward Hollis Architect and Author and Deputy Director of Research, Edinburgh College of Art,
University of Edinburgh, (SCOTLAND)

SITUATION Symposium Presentations Friday August 1st

Paper Presentations

Urban Atmospheres: at the interface of airBenedict Anderson Professor of Spatial Design, University of Technology, Sydney (AUS)Presenting Nothing: how to represent interiors as atmospheresPhilippa Nicole Barr (AUS)Situating AffectAkari Kidd, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ);Jan Smitheram, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)Thinking the Interior: atmospheric envelopes and entangled objectsFiona Curran Artist and Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Art and PhD research student,
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (UK)Situating the Subject at the National Recreation Ground: hut spaces, park practices and subjectivation at New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park in the 1920sJacquie Naismith, Senior Lecturer, School of Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington (NZ)The Metamorphosis of Indian Culture and its Relationship with Interior DesignVarsha Jadhav, Brand Development, Strategic Thinking, DSK International Campus, Pune (INDIA)Adaptive ‘Re-Mardin’: adaptive re-use, beyond cultural and historical conversationÖzge Cordan Lecturer, Department of Interior Design, Faculty of Architecture,Istanbul Technical University (TURKEY);Frederico Fialho Teixeira Lecturer, Istanbul Technical University (TURKEY)150cm domesticityNuttinee Karnchanaporn Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Interior Architecture Program, School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (THAILAND)Learning From Hindsight: experience-centred evaluation of a housing and support environmentKate Tregloan Lecturer, Faculty of Art Design + Architecture, Monash University (AUS);Libby Callaway Department of Occupational Therapy, Monash University and Summer Foundation Ltd (AUS);Byron Mayer Faculty of Art Design + Architecture, Monash University (AUS);Rebecca Woods Department of Occupational Therapy, Monash University, (AUS)

Exhibition Presentations

Those Lights We Call StarsFiona Curran Artist and Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Art and PhD Research Student,
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (UK)Lap of LuxurySophie Knezic Artist and Writer andLecturer, VCA,University of Melbourne (AUS)the lightness of one and three doorsJames Carey Associate Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Interior Design, RMIT University (AUS)Shifting Materials: between capacity and affectGyungju Chyon Lecturer, Industrial Design,RMIT University (AUS);John Sadar Senior Lecturer, MADA, Monash University (AUS)Timber Frame WallSam Kebbell Architect, KebbellDaish Architects and Lecturer, School of Architecture,Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)Just LookingAdele Varcoe PhD Candidate, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University (AUS)

SITUATION Symposium Presentations Saturday August 2nd

Paper Presentations

Patterning Material, Space, and Effects: systems for the generation of interior situationsClay Odom, Assistant Professor, Interior Design, University of Texas, Austin (USA)Surface encounterPhoebe Welman Whitman, PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Interior Design, RMIT University (AUS)The Escaping SurfaceSusan Hedges, Senior Lecturer, Spatial Design, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (NZ)situation (beyond): watercolour as a practice of careRosie Scott, PhD Candidate, Interior Design, RMIT University (AUS)SITUATED ECSTASIES: arranging a ‘margin-archive’Nathan Crane, PhD Candidate and Tutor, University of South Australia (AUS)Relational DocumentationOlivia Pintos-Lopez PhD Candidate, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University (AUS)Inhabiting Appropriation: the artist’s practice as always already-madeMasato Takasaka Artist and PhD Candidate, Monash University (AUS)Echo Chamber: a unique collaboration in response to siteSarah Edwards PhD Candidate, School of Art, RMIT University (AUS)Interior Design Education: assessing that which is uniqueLisa M. Tucker Associate Professor and Chair of Interior Design, School of Architecture + Design, Virginia Tech (USA)Site: the situated and situationalHayley Curnow BA Interior Architecture, Curtin University (AUS)Interior Constructions, or: the situation of the flesh (A. Artaud)Thea Brejzek Professor of Spatial Theory, Interior and Spatial Design, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney (AUS)I think where I am not and I am where I do not thinkLynn Churchill Course Coordinator, Interior Architecture Program, Curtin University (AUS)The Liminality of InteriorityJacqueline Power Lecturer, Interior Design, University of Tasmania (AUS)